Sativa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cannabis sativa, a widely consumed form of cannabis
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
/səˈti va/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Sativa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 637K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- SESweden1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 207K (inferred from the name graph)
522 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cannabis sativa, a widely consumed form of cannabis.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Sativa, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sativa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 522 | 1 in 637K | 505 | Sativa | 134 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | 1 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Sativa | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 14 | Sativa | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Sativa | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | — | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Sativa | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
522 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sativa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, sativa (“Cannabis sativa”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of satīvus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sativa Roseb. 1984MXMexican pornographic actress
- Aisyah Sativa Fatetanib. 2002IDIndonesian badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sativa mean, and where does it come from?
- Cannabis sativa, a widely consumed form of cannabis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sativa?
- It depends on the language: in English /səˈti va/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /satiβa/; in Indonesian /satˈiva/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Sativa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 522 people named Sativa in 2020, about 1 in 637 thousand residents.
- Is Sativa a male or female name?
- Sativa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sativa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 522 people named Sativa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sativa.
What do you want to know about Sativa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sativaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sativa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.